Music Reviews
Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS (Electric Guitar)
The Fender HSS strat or FAT strat as it is widely know is a very popular guitar amongst new players since it is relatively cheap,
but very reliable. In the following review I will talk about its features, quality and value. Then I will make a personal comment …
Bruno Mars - Doo Wops & Hooligans
I think I am in love with a young man from hawaii with a guitar, a vintage quiff and a sweet serenade. I love him and his album, this album is positive it makes me as a woman feel good about myself, it makes me smile and it makes …
Adele - Make You Feel My Love (Song )
I first heard of the legendary Adele back in 2010, when the world never cared for her the way it does now. The song that I first heard? A cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love”.
It’s not even a normal cover, it’s one of those gorgeous …
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood (Song)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) is the second track which appears on Rubber Soul and certainly another one of Lennon’s earlier songs which I would consider to be among his best. I always used to believe, and still believe, that Rubber Soul was certainly the record where The …
Experience CD (by Mahogany Dust)
Mahogany Dust is a husband wife acoustic duo that does most spoken soul performances. But they just released an album called “Experience” that I was quite surprised by. That is because there is more production on the song that I expected. There are …
Tycoon Percussion 6 Inch & 7 Inch Ritmo Bongos
I had spent nearly 5 hours of tireless internet research before settling on the Tycoon Percussion Ritmo Bongos for my first personal set of hand drums. I had never owned a set of hand drums before, but had used various types of drums (all different sizes, uses, and sounds) …
Nothing In This World by Paris Hilton
I love the song, Nothing In This World by Paris Hilton very much! Paris looks so adorable in the music video and if I’m right, this is one of the first few videos that she has released. Not sure which music record company she’s under, but if it’s …
Check On It (2005): Beyonce ft. Slim Thug and Bun B.
Artist: Beyonce ft. Slim Thug and Bun B.
Video: “Check On It”
Album: “The Pink Panther” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/B’Day/#1’s
Label: Columbia
Director: Hype Williams
Hype Williams spreads his wonderful, professional, and messiah-like grace all over this Beyonce music video which is a single off of the original motion picture soundtrack for the 2006 …
Flying the Corporate Jet - Nine Days album
If you are looking for some different music to listen to, I would strongly suggest the album put out in 2003, by Nine Days. This is the band that brought you “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)” back in 2001, and they’ve continued making music since then, even though …
The band Deicide
The band Deicide is a metal band that are horrible. What they sing about I have no idea because there is not one song that I can understand by them, yes it is metal music but still there are a lot of bands out there where you can figure …
B’Day by Beyonce
This CD track was given to me by my sister, and she wanted me to burn songs inside for her. The album is from the ever sexy songstress, Beyonce, and the album is called, “B’Day”. I am not sure what that means, but I am sure enough …
Animal Collective - We Tigers (Song)
We Tigers is a song by Animal Collective and the ninth track to appear on their release Sung Tongs. Opening up with a building percussive rhythm, the vocals of the track enter after a brief amount of time and come in with a simple repeating section. What I like …
Beyond the Sea - Finding Nemo
I reviewed about Amanda Peet on Ellen earlier on, and it made me remember the show Finding Nemo, since her daughter loves Dory the character in the movie so much.
Speaking of Finding Nemo, there is this one song that came to my mind all of a sudden and …
Buffet R13 Clarinet
The Buffet R13 is a standard issue clarinet for all clarinetists that want to play the clarinet throughout their lifetime- not just to be used through your school years and put aside forever. There are two types- the silver plated and nickel plated keys. It is made of premium grenadilla …
Mr. lonely by Akon
Mr. lonely by Akon is a song on how this guy is so lonely because his girl leaves him and he is upset about it. He now is so lonely because he knows he messed up. Now he does not have a girl and it hurts to see …
I Loved Her First by Heartland
I love this song so much that I want it played at my wedding. And that’s a pretty huge thing to say about a song. When I first looked at the title, I thought it was going to be about a man saying to another man that he had …
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton is a person that I admire for his musical abilities such as song writing, singing and instrument playing. Eric Clapton has produced so many albums over the years, and he has played in a number of bands such as The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek And The …
Pink Floyd - Animals
Overview - Animals, Pink Floyd’s eighth record, follows in a similar set up to that of Wish You Were Here and of Atom Heart Mother - except this time it’s switched. With Atom Heart Mother and with Wish You Were Here, the album generally started and closed with some …
“Deth Red Sabaoth” by Danzig (LP, 2010)
It has been six long years since the relatively unimpressive “Circle Of Snakes” record, but the long wait has been far worth it. To the people who thought Glenn Danzig was finally on his way out, this epic release gives them a sure wake-up call. With quality that surpasses …
Jojo - How to touch a girl
How to touch a girl from Jojo is a slow R & B song that nice to listen. I like this song because when it’s sing, it can shows the vocals, i like singing that’s why I like to practice my voice with a kind of song like that.
The …
Megadeth - Sleepwalker (Song)
Sleepwalker is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record United Abominations. The track starts off with a very melodic clean guitar part as some subtle strings also join in during the background of the track before a distorted guitar starts to build up and comes in with …
Should’ve said no
should’ve said no by Taylor Swift is a beautiful song about how this guy cheated on his girl friend and he now realizes he should’ve said no. It just shows how we are all human and at times we do things spur of the moment with out thinking who …
Bob Dylan - Sara (Song)
Sara is a song by Bob Dylan which is the final track on his album Desire. I’ll be honest and admit right now that this is one of my favorite Dylan songs throughout his entire catalogue. The track starts off with a somewhat ominous tone before leading into a …
Queen - A Night at the Opera
British rock band Queen released their most groundbreaking material in the year 1975 - A Night at the Opera album. At the time of its release it was the most expensive album ever made. The album features diverse musical styles such as hard rock, opera influenced rock and pop …
Metallica - To Live Is To Die (Song)
To Live Is To Die, the third instrumental released by Metallica, is unfortunately a track which I define as having a truly brilliant middle melodic section, one of Metallica’s greatest sections throughout their career, but for the most part is just a lot of boring rhythms without much progress …
Placebo’s Album “Battle For the Sun”
At first, I was going to write a bad review for Placebo’s new track “Battle For the Sun” off the album of the same name. Then I took a chance to hear it for a second time. It wasn’t as bad as the first time I’d heard it when I …
Finnish Metal Band, Children of Bodom - I Worship Chaos (2015)
Children of Bodom originated in Espoo, Finland. The drummer, Jaska Raatikainen and high school friend front man Alexi Laiho started the band as young teens. Their project was first named Inearthed, but soon changed the name to Children of Bodom.
The band had this fascination with the murders that occurred …
Barry Manilow - The Greatest Songs of the Seventies
Barry Manilow is one of the great entertainers, and he’s a favorite of mine. Thus, I loved it when my sister gave me his “The Greatest Songs of the Seventies” CD.
What I love about these classics is that Barry stays true to the song but makes it his …
Best of the Freedom Fest CD
The Freedom Fest was a musical celebration held in Provo, Utah in 1999 and included a star cast. The opening number even includes Bob and Delores Hope. It’s called Hope of America and includes the song God Bless America. Now that gets the blood stirring from …
Sam Ash Music Store
Sam Ash Music Store
Raleigh, NC 27604
(919) 855-9581
If you like to play guitars, then chances are you are going to love Sam Ashe. The store is filled to the brim with musical instruments, mostly guitars. For me, the best part abotu sam Ashe is that all of the guitars are …
Ultra Beatdown by Dragonforce
Well, it is finally here, the new Dragonforce album and I have to say it, the album is just ok. It is not their best work, but hey, it is Dragonforce and it still sounds good.
The only problem is that it soudns like they did not put enough effort …
The Doors - Soul Kitchen (Song)
Soul Kitchen is a song by The Doors which appears on their self-titled debut record. The track opens up with an organ lead in the right channel of the track followed by a nice bass line in the left channel while the rest of the instruments come in right …
Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof (Song)
Mansard Roof is the opening track of Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut record. The song opens up with a definitive rhythm and catchy vocal melody before gradually building up until it really picks up around thirty seconds in and establishes a driving rhythm. What I particularly like about Mansard Roof, …
Animal Collective - Turn Into Something (Song)
Turn Into Something is a song by Animal Collective and the final song to appear on their album Feels. Returning to the sound that was prominent throughout the earlier tracks on the record, Turn Into Something has a far more upbeat sound and tempo in comparison to the previous …
Scars On Broadway - Cute Machines (Song)
Cute Machines is a track by Scars On Broadway which shows up on the band’s self-titled debut record. I’ll be honest and say that even from my first listen to the record, Cute Machines was always my least favorite track as I just don’t think it’s very well developed. …
Beyonce Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) Video
Since Beyonce has embarked on her solo career, she has really raunched up her image and shows a lot more flesh than in the videos from her demure Destiny’s Child days. She is a sexy woman so I guess she is being clever and reckoning that sex sells, …
Call of the Wild (song) by Midge Ure
Call of the Wild is one of my all time favourite songs, even though I am not the world’s biggest fan of the singer in general. I do like a few of his other compositions, but this one really stands out for me. It is unfortunately rather hampered by …
Yankee Rose By David Lee Roth
After Van Halen Split up David Lee Roth still pulled off an excellent solo career wih an ep like Crazy From the Heat and the 1986 release of Eat’Em and Smile. One of the tracks that most people are familiar with is the song Yankee Rose which is a …
Iron Maiden - Lightning Strikes Twice (Song)
Lightning Strikes Twice is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Virtual XI. The track starts off in a very melodic fashion with a clean guitar part as well as a lead melodic solo coming through the left channel of the track as you can also …
Katy Perry: Thinking Of You (song)
Thinking of you: is a heartfelt song filled with love felt words could bring a tear to your eye. The lyrics are full of metaphoric sentences throughout the whole song, like most of Katy Perry songs. Katy Perry’s voice holds so much emotion that I cried almost on each …
System Of A Down - Hypnotize
Overview —“ Hypnotize, the second half of System Of A Down’s double album release Mezmerize/Hypnotize, is a good album to pick off where Mezmerize left off and continue in a similar style, feel, and sound as the aforementioned album. I’m not positive but I believe that both were completed …
Shure Wireless PG24 wireless microphone
One of the things I bought online for my band awhile back is the PG24 wireless microphone by Shure. Since Im a guitarist, a very big part of the band is singing back up vocals and being able to sing harmonies with power and more volume I needed a …
System Of A Down - Spiders (Music Video)
Overview —“ Spiders, a music video released by System Of A Down for promotion of their debut self titled album is a song and a music video that I’ll admit I really didn’t like at first. I’ll admit that I’m still not really a big fan of the music …
Animal Collective - Visiting Friends (Song)
Visiting Friends is a song by Animal Collective and is the seventh track on their record Sung Tongs. Something I’ll point out immediately is that Visiting Friends is the longest track on the record and clocks in at just over twelve and a half minutes. Opening up with some …
Metallica - All Within My Hands (Song)
All Within My Hands is a song by Metallica which appears on their record St. Anger. The song opens up with a fast tempo and the unfortunate drum tone that Lars Ulrich had throughout this entire album. Nevertheless, Hetfield’s riff can slightly make up for it, despite its …
Adele - 25 (Album)
Adele comes back with a very strong effort to follow her 30 million selling album 21. Following her age as basis for her album titles (19, 21), her highly-anticipated 3rd studio record is a continuation to that, 25. While 21 focuses on heartbreak tunes, 25 is definitely about making …
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue (1994)
“No Need To Argue” was a natural evolution from their previous album. The Cranberries recreated exactly what they’ve achieved on “Everybody ” except they did it on a different scale. Stronger, angrier, longer, the album has that self-confidence “Everybody ” lacked. Supposedly this mixture was the one which rocketed …
Lady Gaga - Telephone (Song)
Telephone is a song by Lady Gaga which appears on her album The Fame Monster. The track opens up with a fairly quiet mood which serves as a nice contrast to the majority of the track which is much more lively and energetic. I think that a nice thing …
Got Your Back (song) from T.I. featuring Keri Hilson
The opening strain of this song is like Knock you down from Keri Hilson. They lyrics shows that it is became Knocks you down part two. Actually that is what my friends said too but anyway this song is like other hip hop songs that came out it only …
Love Sex Magic (2009): Ciara ft. Justin Timberlake
Ciara ft. Justin Timberlake
“Love Sex Magic”
Fantasy Ride
LaFace Records
Director: Diane Martel
Ciara delivers to us what is probably the best single and music video yet from her third album, “Fantasy Ride”, titled “Love Sex Magic”. Inspired by the Crazy Horse Cabaret of Paris descent which is a ‘Love-Sex-Magic Show’ in of …
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